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From: jon@wilbur.uucp (Jonathan Broome)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Two blind mice (VP/ix)
Keywords: VP/ix Logitech mouse
Message-ID: <1989Sep6.094938.20966@wilbur.uucp>
Date: 6 Sep 89 09:49:38 GMT
References: <1220@ssbn.WLK.COM> <1395@redsox.bsw.com> <3065@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: jon@wilbur.UUCP (Jonathan Broome)
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Organization: Wilbur's Bike Shop, Westlake Village, Ca
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In article <3065@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> Steven H. Izen writes:
[ quotes other's articles about problems with Logitech mice, then adds ]
: If you buy ISC's X-windows, you get a driver /dev/logi for the Logitech bus
: mouse.  I'm using it with vpix on 2.0.1 and have had no problems.  Just
: replace /dev/mouse references in vpix.cnf with /dev/logi.  Even the /dev/mouse
: ioctls seem to work!
: 
: I was told by ISC that they only provide the driver when you buy X-windows.
: But that was a while ago.

ISC's 386/ix version 2.0.2 comes with full support for the Logitech
old-style bus mouse (model "P7").  [It appears that Logitech "fixed"
some hardware "flaws" in the new "Series 9" mouse, introducing several
incompatibilities in the process.]  The driver works with VP/ix as a
Logitech mouse and everything.  ISC's X product also includes the driver
for use with pre-2.0.2 systems (though VP/ix didn't know of Logitech in
earlier versions, and just emulates the Microsoft hardware.)  The logi
kernel driver is fully compatible with the Microsoft driver, so it should
come as no surprise that the ioctls work.

 ---Jonathan Broome
 jon@wilbur.uucp

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